Another rainy gray day when I hoped to go out for sunrise so here's a sunrise from earlier in May. Is this the cloudiest spring ever or is it just bad timing again and again?
Bridget and the Saintpaulias for Caturday.
The process of planting the front porch flowers has begun.
Off topic but today I stopped at the park in Kutztown to see the Keith Haring sculpture Figure Balancing on Dog. Haring grew up not far from where I take a lot of my pictures.
Another 15th of May, down in the woods outside town. Sunlight, sunlight, sunlight!
May doing its green magic, 2019. A month later you would hardly be able to see the lake from that spot.
Mid-May 2019.
3 years ago today I visited some cliffs along the Lehigh River. Water seeped and dripped from them constantly and the were covered with a wonderful mix of mosses, lichens, liverworts and other native plants.
While I'm posting from the camera here are a few of a bluebird couple at the park last week. There's a nest box on a pole along that fence and they were hanging out near it.
Female hummingbird. A male has been coming for about a week (males arrive early to establish territories, females arrive later when food sources are more reliable) but only when it's dark, way before sunrise or well after sunset. This is the first female I've seen this season and this was early morning too but with just enough light for my camera. Welcome back, smol friend!
It doesn’t look like much right now but the handsome green dragon in the garden has finally wakened from sleep. I bought a companion so maybe one could pollinate the other and I could finally get seeds but while it was out on the patio in a plastic pot waiting to be planted, squirrels sheered the new one off at ground level. :-/
Foggy sunrise at the lake last Tuesday.
A yesterday thing that wasn’t aurora related: buttercups by the stream.
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Once again Bridget is exceeding legal cuteness limits.
And these were preceded by her master move of squirming so her head is upside-down looking at you wide-eyed with her toe beans showing. I just couldn’t get the phone ready fast enough.
Bridget for Caturday
A note to people who may be looking for aurora the next couple nights: even if it looks cloudy where you are, take a couple phone pictures of the sky to the north to make sure. When I got up I thought it was cloudy. Luckily I took a couple phone pictures and they picked up the colors.
It turned out that what I *thought* were clouds were the pillars and curtains of the aurora. The lights here in town had made it difficult for me to see the colors so the aurora looked gray like clouds to my naked eyes. I almost went back to sleep!
Also I could see a fogbow from my house because why not? For @srobrien2
The Big Dipper set in aurora colors. We don't usually have aurora. It's the first time I've ever seen it!